[CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

[Keith Keller]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:07:17AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> 
> I see that the Areca driver has finally made it into the mainline Linux 
> kernel. But I wonder how things have improved from this particular case.
> 
> http://notemagnet.blogspot.com/2008/08/linux-disk-failures-areca-is-not-so.html

I can't speak to this, except to point out that it is almost 18 months
old, which is quite a long time in kernel development space.

With the right incantation, one can call smartctl directly on a drive
connected to a 3ware controller, no matter what kind of array it is in.
(I believe you can even call it on a drive assigned as a hot spare.)

> Any comments? With 3ware lately not looking so good from comments I have 
> heard on the list over the past few years performance wise, I wonder how 
> Adaptec and Areca look now?

I've run an exclusively 3ware shop since I ditched my last aacraid
machines a few years back.  But with all their issues, I am definitely
considering trying Areca on my next server that's not planned to be
immediately mission-critical.  (I wouldn't switch back to Adaptec unless
I knew their interface tools, and especially their cli, had improved
dramatically; the aaccli/afacli interfaces were simply atrocious.)

--keith

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kkeller at speakeasy.net

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